Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Goodman Ace
Jane Ace
Ann-Margret
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Walter Brennan
Walter Cronkite
Bing Crosby
Phyllis Diller
Dave Garroway
Arthur Godfrey
Stewart Granger
Bela Lugosi
Dean Martin
Edward R. Murrow
Jack Nicholson
Richard Nixon
Ralph Richardson
Gordon Scott
Howard K. Smith
Robert Vaughn
Allison Hayes
Yvette Vickers
George Fenneman
Groucho Marx
Steve Allen
Dick Clark
George Burns
Brett Halsey
Jackie Joseph
W.C. Fields
Alfred Hitchcock
David Love
Clayton Moore
Jay Silverheels
Gordon MacRae
Andy Devine
George Reeves
Noel Neill
Richard Greene
Alfie Bass
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Lon Chaney Jr.
Leo G. Carroll
Art Linkletter
George Raft
Lucien Littlefield
Kay Kyser
John Wayne
Christopher Lee
Hugh O'Brian
Walter Winchell
Mamie Van Doren
Elisha Cook Jr.
Elsa Martinelli
Anthony Quinn
Vincent Price
Peter Lorre
Boris Karloff
Basil Rathbone
Frankie Darro
Harpo Marx
Marian Jordan
Jim Jordan
Jeanne Crain
Elvis Presley
John Carradine
Buffalo Bob Smith
Chuck Connors
Johnny Crawford
Alan Ladd
Loretta Young
William Bendix
Victor Sen Yung
Dolph Sweet
John Agar
Conway Twitty
Sammy Davis Jr.
Noah Beery Jr.
Peter Fonda
Hugh Marlowe
Joan Taylor
Gail Patrick
Ozzie Nelson
Harriet Nelson
David Nelson
Ricky Nelson
Marlon Brando
Jayne Meadows
Dion DiMucci
Broderick Crawford
Fred MacMurray
Morris Ankrum
Peter Graves
William Boyd
Faye Dunaway
Warren Beatty
Zeppo Marx
Eric Burdon
Sammy Petrillo
Glenn Langan
Richard Denning
George O'Hanlon
Gregory Peck
Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
Rod Serling
Jackie Gleason
David Brinkley
Jimmy Durante
Ed Sullivan
Annette Funicello
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Jack Larson
Clint Eastwood